Today has been the best and most productive day we’ve spent in Haiti on this trip. Both Lee and I agree this day was the day we were hoping for before we ever left the Sates.
We spent the entire day with Pastor Leon and his brother touring his schools and clinics, examining the storage and […]

Last night Lee and I met with the Rev. Jack Martin, the Petersburg District Superintendant and the Volunteers in Mission work team he is leading here in Haiti. We had dinner with the group and then Jack asked us to make a presentation about the work of Stop Hunger Now.
The presentation went well and there […]

The Rev. Lee Warren, the Virginia Director of Stop Hunger Now, and I have been in Port-au-Prince, Haiti for less than 24 hours, and yet we have already seen the grace of God at work. We left Raleigh on a 0630 flight to Miami. Our connecting flight from Miami to Port-au-Price was delayed for two […]

After thirty years of working with the world’s poor and hungry I have learned that the gifts they offer me are often far more valuable than what my efforts provide for them. Being receptive to our sisters and brothers who live in poverty opens us to receive numerous deep truths we might otherwise never experience.
One of the […]

Yesterday all the participants here at the seminar took a brief tour of Asuncion. That was followed by a short time for shopping and a tour of a local Methodist Church and school.
 
After that we were all taken to the Central Methodist Church for a snack and open air worship. The worship service was filled […]

This has been a wonderful trip. Every day brings new friends, new opportunities and new ideas for service. So much new information keeps flowing in that it is difficult to keep track of all of it.
For that reason, I want to go back and share a litle more about our time in Quito, Ecuador during […]

I am currently in Asuncion, Paraguay attending the
World Methodist Evangelism Institute South America Forum. I am here to lead a workshop on “A Wesleyan Approach to Ministering to the Poor: Social Action as Grace.” There are over 75 participants here from over ten countries.
This is the culmination of a South American jaunt which has taken […]

It’s late and it’s been another long day, but I couldn’t go to bed with a short update. I have to be up at 0500 tomorrow as we fly from here to Bogota, then on to Argentina, so this has to be quick.
Seeing the great work being done in Quito was moving, and there are […]

Hungry childern in Quito enjoy a nutitous meal of beans, rice, salad, hard boiled egg and bananas.

God’s grace always exceeds our expectations. It’s a truth that I experience daily, but especially during my travels. Already, this trip is filled with such grace.
 
The night before the trip I did not sleep well. I was starting to physically feel bad and was up at least four times during the night. I finally got […]